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Teachers' Resources

Documentaries and Short Films

All Grade Levels

With over 20 years experience producing media, including films, TV
and Internet, to preserve and enhance Inuit culture and language, Isuma
Distribution International now offers educators a collection of DVDs on
Inuit culture and life in Nunavut, Canada. Included in this collection
are contemporary documentaries and short films and a series depicting
the traditional nomadic lifestyle lived by the Inuit of the Arctic in
the 40's. All films are in Inuktitut, with English and/or French
subtitles, and are written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit,
giving students the unique opportunity to learn about a culture from
its native people.

Live from the Set is the
daily journal of this most unusual production. Over the course of 38
days, our reporters produced a rich media journal featuring videos,
photos and interviews with the cast and crew.

Isuma Inuit Classic Collection: 1987-2007

Buy the complete Isuma film collection in an elegant compact
boxed set of 32 DVDs representing 20 years of Inuit films by Zacharias
Kunuk and Igloolik Isuma Productions. Suitable for schools,
universities, libraries, museums and any collectors of Inuit
filmmaking, the Isuma Inuit Classic Collection comprises the
most complete film library of any indigenous culture in history,
telling its own stories by its own members in its own language and
point of view.

This DVD collection includes Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, winner of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Opening Night selection of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival; the 1994-95 classic 13-episode TV series, Nunavut (Our Land); and sixteen short films and documentaries including Kiviaq vs Canada, Kunuk Family Reunion, My First Polar Bear, Shaman Stories and Urban Inuk. Also included is Isuma’s first youth drama, Issaituq (Waterproof), co-produced with Igloolik’s Artcirq Youth Group, and to follow at no extra charge, Isuma’s third feature film, Before Tomorrow, written and directed by the Arnait Inuit Women’s Collective, to be released in spring 2008.

Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum

Bringing Inuit culture into primary schools for the International Polar Year, Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum (EICC)
is a multi-media unit for grades 4-6 about Inuit culture, the Arctic
and Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut. Lesson plans aligned to
elementary curricula are based on five DVDs and a music CD from the
Igloolik Isuma Productions media collection. Following a 100-page
curriculum guide written and field-tested by elementary school
teachers, teachers and students explore the richness of Inuit culture
and unique Canadian Arctic from an Inuit point of view. Download a PDF flyer or Sample Lesson Plan (requires Acrobat reader).